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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
I don't really collect guitars like some musicians do.
Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.
It is fun to smash guitars.
I smash guitars because I like them.
If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.
A guitar is more than just a sound box ... it is part of your soul.
This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
My guitar was a loyal person to me.
You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.
Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
My radio, believe me, I like it loud,
I'm the man with a box that can rock the crowd.
Walkin' down the street, to the hardcore beat
While my JVC vibrates the concrete.
First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.
My guitar wants to kill your mama.
I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.
Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.
I look for things that are left of center, something you've only seen your whole life, but never heard. Hit it! With a stick! I have a guitar made out of a 2x4 that I bought in Cleveland.
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
Raucous heavy metal of punk guitars screeching like robots put to the rack ...
I'm surrounded by great guitar players.
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.
I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.
When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.
I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.
I play American and World music, Texas style.
What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.
I'm a struggling guitar player.
Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.
Bass guitar is the engine of the band.
I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.
You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.
I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert
My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.
Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.
A good player can make any guitar sound good.
I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a bunch of keyboards ... It's like Guitar Center exploded, and all the cool stuff dropped in my backyard. I'm a really lucky guy, I have to admit.
All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.
So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.
Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.
I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.
I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.
I'm not a good guitar player.
Barney Bigard's clarinet,
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
A guitar has moonlight in it.
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
Steve and I caught Neil Young promoting his first solo album, his signature black Gibson plugged into a tiny Fender amp, blowing out the walls of the Bitter End.
Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.
After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.
A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!
I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.
My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.
It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!
The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.
Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That's why I like it ... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time.
I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.
I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.
You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes ... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.
I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like these folk kind of guitars. You can pick 'em, you can strum 'em - they're quite good.
I have to make rock records occasionally.
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
I felt every part of that animal music, felt it eat me up and spit me out, and what emerged was a me a thousand times more powerful than Piper Vaughan. I was Piper Vaughan, guitar hero - spiritual descendant of Jimi Hendrix and proponent of pure anarchy. And I ROCKED.
I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.
My guitar's name was Liz. As in, short for Elizabeth, Queen of England. She was a lady.
Don't judge.
When you think about where guitar playing is going today ... : it's going everywhere at the same time.
Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'
I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.
I just play Cure music, whatever that is.
I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used ...
During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
All of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters
It's a Harley Night Rod. She's the love of my life, so don't scratch the paint when you get on.
When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique ...
There is something about guitars - maybe something magical - when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.